April 24, 1916
Air War:
French ace Jean Navarre, flying a Nieuport 11, shoots down an LVG two-seater for victory number 9.
North Sea:
Dutch freighter SS Maashaven, 2,609 tons, hits a mine laid by an unknown ship, 3 miles north of the Galloper Bouy. The damaged ship will be refloated on May 5. This is the second mine struck by Maashaven, the first being on January 13. Then the ship had drifted ashore near Calais, refloated and towed to Rotterdam.
UB-13 is lost in a mine net off the coast of Belgium with all 17 crew.
German torpedo boat FL 3 is wrecked, apparently due to a control problem.
Baltic Sea:
Norwegian trawler Strømsnæs, 230 tons, carrying a load of fish from Bergen to Lübeck, hits a German protective mine south of Gedser.
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